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" Quicquid feci adhuc infec-
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tum esse mallem, quicquid dixi cum recogito, mutis
invideo,1 quicquid optavi inimicorum exsecrationem
puto, quicquid timui, di boni, quanto levius fuit quam
quod concupii ! Cum multis inimicitias gessi et in
gratiam ex odio, si modo ulla inter malos gratia est,
redii ; mihi ipsi nondum amicus sum. Omnem
operam dedi, ut me multitudini educerem et aliqua
dote notabilem facerem. Quid aliud quam telis me
opposui et malevolentiae quod morderet ostendi ?
1 mutis invideo Gruter: in multis uideo A.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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